"California became a fortress of the left because the traditional Christian Americans were replaced with Catholics." California has approximately the same percentage Catholics as does Texas. The cause of California's leftward lurch is not the Catholic immigrants, it is the influx of non-Catholic fruits and nuts from the other 49 states since 1970.
""During the 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles was a bastion of Anglo Protestantism, reflecting the values of Midwestern parishioners who had been carried to the Southland on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Well into the 1970s, Protestant denominational leaders enjoyed comfortable, influential ties with the city is still-strong "downtown business establishment," which itself was largely Protestant.
The Immigration Act of 1965, however, created the condition for a radically different religious future for the City of Angels-a future that would anoint Roman Catholicism as the area's dominant religious group. Today Roman Catholicism is the single largest faith tradition in Los Angeles County, with 294 parishes and 3,631,368 adherents. Among Christians, 71% are Catholics. Between 1980 and 1997, Roman Catholicism experienced a 36% growth.""
That results in pro-abortion, liberal voting even in elections where abortion issues are front and center, such as illustrated here.
